Bungie Files New Marathon Trademark

[Ultra_Caboose]

Sounds pretty cool. I haven't played any of the Marathon games, but I should probably start doing that...
It's wierd, though. After working on one franchise, they move on to make their really famous franchise, and leave to do other things, which means working on the first franchise. While I'm certainly not complaining, not at all, it seems like they would've gone with a new IP by now...

 

[Souplex]

Since the Marathon series has been a Mac thing will they release the new one on the iPad? (Can't get over how stupid that name is.)
Metroid: Hunters did prove that FPS controls can work with a touch screen.
Speculate!

 

[Kermi]

Does anyone else thing that plain black image with the silver Marathon logo would make a totally awesome box art?

you mean like this?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28180536@N08/2738716908/

...yes

 

[jabrwock]

Yes and no. There's lots of similarities, but lots of differences. Even if the Marathon had been launched in the Halo Universe, they would have had FTL drives in Halo before the Marathon reached Tau Ceti; and likely would have beat them there. It's far more likely that the Halo Universe existed after the collapse of the universe/galaxy in Marathon. This is all part of Durandal's imagination/shaping of the universe/whatever the hell actually happened in Infinity, the non-linear mindfuck that it is.

They're not the same universe, but they're similar. kind of. Bungie can't help but lace 7's and 3's and the marathon logo into everything.

I'm not sure of it, really, but I'm sure somebody at Bungie knows the tru7h.

If it's all Durandal's mindfuck on the universe following the "events" of Marathon Infinity, then ... *head asplodes* *sound of a splattered egg reforming itself and jumping back up onto the table* Ok, that works for me.

 

[Mr. Sparzy]

As for the topic on-hand: Bungie needs to re-acquire the rights to the Myth series. Those were some fantastic RTS games (and not your standard "Resource-gathering" RTS either), and it's a real shame that the the Myth Trilogy was capped-off with some other company completely butchering what was established in the first two games. At least gameplay-wise, story I can't comment on much because the game is literally unbeatable due to a crashing bug early in the game. I've heard there's a fan-made patch for it, but I never felt arsed enough to track it down...

There's a reason people call the Myth games "Real Time Tactical", since they're mostly about the tactics for a specific battle, not an overall strategy.

I wouldn't exactly call games like StarCraft a strategy game when it feels like the only strategy in that game is rushing. Plus, I think there is more strategy in the management of your soldiers than the micromanagement of buildings and resources. (Also, Bungie calls it a RTS in the strategy guide and on bungie.net.)